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WILLIAM S. DEWEES

PROMINENT RESIDENT DIES AT HOME HERE. WILLIAM S. DEWEES CAME HERE 14 YEARS
AGO. WAS BORN IN KENTUCKY AND WAS 77 YEARS OF AGE.—LEAVES LARGE FAMILY. William
Shaw DeWees, aged 77 years, a resident of Ellensburg and the Kittitas Valley
for the past fourteen years, died yesterday afternoon at his home on South Sprague
Street after a lingering illness of six months’ duration. The funeral will take
place tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock from the home under the direction of M.
L. Bridgham. Rev. Mr. Sharp will conduct the services. Interment will take place
in the Odd Fellows’ Cemetery.

Mr. DeWees was born in Kentucky and came to Ellensburg in 1902, taking a farm
here which he worked until a few years ago when he moved to the city. He leaves
a wife, Mrs. W. S. DeWees, and six daughters, Ina DeWees and Mrs. Ellis Davis,
both of Ellensburg, and four daughters living in Kansas; and four sons, George
W. and E. B. DeWees, both of Ellensburg, R. G. DeWees, of Thrail, and W. P.
DeWees, of Vancouver, B. C.

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The obit actually listed William as Walter. I verified the children listed
in the obituary and it is definitely William’s obituary. William died February
8, 1917.